60 Minutes Pokes Zuckerberg, Defriends Winklevi

Last night, Facebook friend-in-chief Mark Zuckerberg appeared on 60 Minutes to promote his site’s recent redesign. To everyone’s surprise, Zuckerberg came across as rather lifelike—positively human, even—during the interview. “[H]is face is well-lighted and opened up,” raved Forbes. Zuckerberg “maintained a dose of levity,” gushed CNET. Even his interlocutor, Leslie Stahl, delighted that the famously chilly billionaire is “far more relaxed now” compared with his demeanor during his initial 60 Minutes appearance in 2008. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the litigious Übermenschen who sued Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their idea for a social networking site,also appeared on last night’s episode to complain about the injustice of their $65 million settlement. Stahl, skeptical and deliciously acerbic, did not have much patience for their avarice. “Looks like it’s all about money!” she told one or the other, smiling. Zuckerberg was similarly unsympathetic. “I've probably spent less than two weeks of my time worried about this lawsuit at all,” he told Stahl. When asked if he had any regrets concerning his conduct with the Winklevi, he replied, “After all this time, I feel bad that they still feel bad about it.”

But by the looks of his own Facebook profile, one Winklevoss does not seem to “still feel bad about it.” Of the eight public links that Tyler—he’s the blond with the WASPy overbite—has shared since March, five of them relate to The Social Network. (Unfortunately, Cameron—he’s the blond with the WASPy overbite—did not make his shared items public. Facebook’s privacy controls at work!) In an introduction to a Business Insider piece that he posted to his profile in March, Tyler wrote, “oh the irony that I should be posting this on facebook....lol.” In September, Tyler posted a link to a New York Post story about himself and his brother. “Lol
” he commented. Someone really ought to let Zuckerberg know there’s no reason to feel so bad. He is not Facebook friends with either Winklevoss, so he might have missed these notes.